mensurable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- mensurability noun
- unmensurable adjective
Etymology
Origin of mensurable
1595–1605; < Late Latin mēnsūrābilis, equivalent to mēnsūrā ( re ) to measure + -bilis -ble
Example Sentences
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Every object, therefore, of which quantity, in the mathematical sense, is predicable, must be by its essential nature mensurable.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Again, every line is extension in one dimension; hence a mathematical quantity, hence mensurable, hence finite; you must therefore, deny that a line is a quantity, or else affirm that it is finite.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
The body of a male is visible to the eyes, is mensurable and ponderable, is clearly marked in its specific organs.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington
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